News from St Bartholomew's

Consultants at Barts Health have trialled a potentially lifesaving ‘pre-hab’ programme to help patients become physically fit so that they can safely undergo lung cancer surgery, a new study published in the Perioperative Medicine Journal today shows. 

St Bartholomew’s Hospital medical director Edward Rowland explores the history of the hospital through past epidemics such as the Spanish ‘flu.

The vital role St Bartholomew's has been playing in London’s Covid-19 response is just the latest chapter in the Hospital’s long history of providing care and support for Londoners in times of crisis, writes Will Palin, chief executive of Barts Heritage.

Explore the origins of an event that dates back to at least 1551 and that, despite two world wars and now a global pandemic, has never been cancelled.

The coronavirus pandemic means that the event, the origins of which date as far back as the Middle Ages, is very different this year.